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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 10 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

X Prize Opens Centenarian Genome Competition

The first scientific team to sequence the genomes of 100 one-hundred year olds wins $10 million. It’s the latest offering from the science competition organization, X Prize Foundation, a non-profit designed to spur science and technology by awarding big cash prizes for significant breakthroughs. Their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Physiology, Scientainment, Video on 10 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Ig Nobel Prizes Take a Lighter Look at Science

Pee pressure, beer bottle-humping beetles and a wasabi-flavored fire alarm were among the top prizes awarded at Harvard University’s 21st Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a more laid back version of the Nobel Prize ceremony. Nobel Prize laureates present the Ig Nobels to scientists and philosophers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 10 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Immunologists

A pioneering researcher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday, three days after dying of pancreatic cancer without ever knowing he was about to be honored for his immune system work that he had used to prolong his own life. Ralph Steinman, 1943-2011 Cell biologist Ralph Steinman...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Physiology, Video on 09 1st, 2011 | No Comments

A Breath of Medical Fresh Air

Starting in a couple of years you may be able to let out a big sigh of relief that medical diagnostics are moving away from needles and other invasive ways of figuring out what’s going on in the human body. New technology that takes detailed readings from our breath are already being tested to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Diseases, Physiology, Video on 08 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Expensive Prostate Drug Complicated and Unpopular with Docs

Many doctors aren’t prescribing biotech company Dendreon’s experimental prostate cancer drug. The company’s stock shares dropped sharply after it announced it was firing workers and lowering its revenue forecast for the year. But the drug is hailed as a powerful, yet complicated way...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Plants, Space, Video on 07 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Last Shuttle Crammed with Science Experiments

When the final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program blasted off flawlessly on Friday, over one million onlookers gathered in Florida for the launch. Tens of millions more watched on television. But what they couldn’t see amid the liftoff fire and smoke was all the science that was en route...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 05 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Pain Pill Makes Love Hurt Less

Emotional pain, like that associated with a heartbreak hurts with the same intensity as physical pain and it lights up the same part of the brain. Now researchers have discovered that the pain is just as real and can be reduced with a common painkiller. It’s been said that love hurts, especially...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 05 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Armadillos Source of Leprosy in the South

After a mysterious outbreak of leprosy began a few years ago, researchers began looking for a cause. In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists discovered that the armadillo is one of the few animals that carries the bacteria that causes leprosy. Every year, there...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Physiology, Psychology, The Brain, Video on 03 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Texas Oil Tycoon Pushes the Edges of Science

Just because Texas oil tycoon Tom Slick died in a plane crash in 1962 doesn’t mean his vision died with him. In fact, his legacy has grown a few lone-star state institutions that bring in over $1 billion a year to the San Antonio area. The Southwest Research Institute and the Texas Biomedical...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 02 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Man’s Stem Cells Save His Heart

Stem cells are changing medicine. Every day it seems like there is a new story of a person whose life was spared thanks to advances in stem cell research. Now, John Christy, a Vietnam veteran, becomes the first person in the U.S. to have his own bone marrow stem cells harvested to save his heart. He...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Discoveries, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 02 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Cell Phone Study Finds Increase in Brain Activity

Radio frequency exposure to cell phones may increase brain activity and glucose metabolism. Scientists don’t know what it means for our health but a new National Institutes of Health study has found that hand held cell phone use stimulates brain activity. Dr. Nora Volkow says the study shows that...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 02 10th, 2011 | No Comments

Supplement Snake Oil, Not Science

Tony Ford may call himself a ‘technician,’ but in reality he’s more like a flimflam man: A purveyor of potions. A glorified vitamin salesman. But he is one of thousands of independent sellers of L-Arginine, the latest miracle health cure, said to cure stroke, cancer, diabetes, reverse...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 02 1st, 2011 | No Comments

10 Amazing Facts about the Human Body

Find out just how incredible the human body is. How fast do you sneeze? How much heat does your body produce? How much blood do you pump? How many miles of nerves do you have in your body? How many scents can your nose detect? How much saliva will you produce over your lifetime?

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Psychology, The Brain, Video on 12 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Science of Generosity

Is there a gene that determines how generous you are? That’s one of the questions that a new research initiative at the University of Notre Dame hopes to answer. The new Science of Generosity Initiative has just finished funding 13 projects that will help science (mostly social science) better...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 12 16th, 2010 | No Comments

HIV Cure on the Horizon

A man is cured, doctors are stunned and patients have new hope. It could be the cure for HIV. It worked on one man in Germany and now a San Francisco company is trying to do replicate the results in the United States. “We have this patient in Berlin who develops leukemia, gets a bone marrow transplant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Space, Video on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Students Send Science to Space

It’s an opportunity so rare only 16 schools in the nation will participate, and one of those schools is from Jefferson County, Kentucky. As WLKY’s Monica Hardin reports, these students are taking their knowledge in science to a whole new level that’s out of this world. Their experiment...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Astrobiology, Biology, New Species, Physiology, Video on 12 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

NASA Discovers New Life

In Mono Lake, California, NASA says that a form of life, never before found on Earth, is thriving. This potato-shaped microbe is not proof of aliens among us but it is a big deal for scientists. NASA’s announcement on Thursday of radical new bacteria that survive by incorporating arsenic instead...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Economics, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Podcast, Psychology, SciClips on 06 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Tax Minded

William Harbaugh, Ulrich Mayr, and Dan Burghart When the tax man comes calling most people do not feel a sense of satisfaction or pleasure. But new research from Oregon may have found the part of the brain that enjoys giving money away—especially if it’s voluntary. Tax Minded [ 1:11...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Physiology, Podcast, SciClips on 05 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment

Blood Pressure Plant

Wild Garlic courtesy of Dr. Irene Mackraj Plants have been a mainstay in traditional African medicine. Now a group of scientists has taken 16 common South African plants and discovered that eight of them have properties that reduce blood pressure. They are: Spleen Amaranth (Amaranthus dubius) Smooth...

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